Word: slate
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...full slate of professional hockey gaues last night left NHL teams in their same relative positions. Montreal Canadiens continued their winning ways in a rousing 5-1 win over Chicago Black Hawks. Boston Bruins shut out Toronto 5 to 0 and the New York Rangers nipped Detroit...
...soon as the fire trucks had left Thursday, Buildings and Grounds men were at work putting temporary planking over the place where the roof had been cut away. Permanent repairs of the two burned-out roof timbers, the planks and slate of the roof itself, and the metal flashing will begin on Monday, Roberts said. Workmen will also begin re-plastering walls at the time, but will have to wait until the present plaster dries thoroughly before doing any painting, he added...
...most powerful men in the Senate, until he tangled with Magsaysay and Magsaysay's policy of friendly cooperation with the U.S. Recto was once a big power in Magsaysay's own Nacionalista Party, but this year he was specifically eliminated from the party slate at Magsaysay's insistence. Senator Recto found a berth on the Liberal slate as a "guest candidate," and set off to barnstorm against his President, whom he called a "dictator" and a "U.S. puppet." Two nights before the election, in a speech at the Manila Harvard Club, he dramatically proclaimed that "Magsaysayism...
Instead of the usual "vote the CCA slate" appeal to voters, CCA men Crane and DeGuglielmo ran their battles on a "vote No. 1 for me" basis. Political observers close to the campaign scene reported yesterday that opposition developed between a coalition of Crane, DeGuglielmo, and unsuccessful candidate Marcus Morton, and a Mrs. Wise-Bradlee F. Clarke faction...
...just one of the paradoxes of Muir's life, which has seen the boy who quit school at the age of 14 eventually become a distinguished professor. Thinking back to his early years, Muir recalls: "I disliked school from the start... with its smell of ink, chalk, slate, corduroy, and varnish. The classroom made me feel as if my head were stuffed with hot cotton-wool...